Financial Information, 1983

The National Association for Ethnic Studies (NAES) Records house meeting minutes, agendas, reports, conference programs, financial information, correspondence, article drafts and reviews, and other materials documenting the Association's operations and activities from 1973 to 2003. Among the subjects represented are Executive Committee meetings, conferences and conference planning, reports from the Association's officers, financial information, membership drives and records, policy statements, correspondence, and creating and distributing various publications.

Series I: Administrative Records consists primarily of meeting minutes, agendas, notes, reports, and other materials documenting NAES Executive Council meetings between 1975 and 2000. Subjects discussed at these meetings include national and regional conference planning, officers' reports, membership and financial information, officer elections, the NAES textbook evaluation program, and concerns regarding bias in academic programs and society. Also included are detailed reports documenting the organization's membership and finances, information regarding NAES's dissolution and reincorporation in 1985, policy statements, correspondence, and information about awards granted by the organization.

Series II: Conferences includes programs, draft and final conference papers, photographs, correspondence, and other materials showing conferences organized by NAES between 1973 and 1998. Most of the conferences represented are annual gatherings, but some regional conferences held around the United States are also present. Series III: Publications houses submitted papers, reviewers' comments, correspondence, and other materials documenting the creation and publication of Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Ethnic Studies Review, Explorations in Sights and Sounds, and the organization's newsletter. Peer reviewers' names have been redacted unless the reviewer wrote a critique of the reviewed piece that was subsequently published.